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... existence ? What agent could have lifted its material and piled them up into that solitary cone ? Again , the merest fragment of stone picked up on any everyday ramble may furnish questions , for the due an- swering of which many years ...
... existence ? What agent could have lifted its material and piled them up into that solitary cone ? Again , the merest fragment of stone picked up on any everyday ramble may furnish questions , for the due an- swering of which many years ...
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... search in nooks and corners , of which he would not otherwise have suspected the existence , and thus he acquires a thoroughness of grasp attainable in no other way . The best field - geology is of that —G IV -GEOLOGICAL MAPS.
... search in nooks and corners , of which he would not otherwise have suspected the existence , and thus he acquires a thoroughness of grasp attainable in no other way . The best field - geology is of that —G IV -GEOLOGICAL MAPS.
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... existence or absence of maps of the region to be ex- amined ; according to climate and other obvious causes . Such peculiarities as these , which greatly affect the first general traverses of a country , are apt to influence all the ...
... existence or absence of maps of the region to be ex- amined ; according to climate and other obvious causes . Such peculiarities as these , which greatly affect the first general traverses of a country , are apt to influence all the ...
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... existence of such a crust depends upon unequal decay ; some one or more in- gredients of the rock disappear faster than the others , which may remain isolated and comparatively little altered in the crumbling débris of the decomposed ...
... existence of such a crust depends upon unequal decay ; some one or more in- gredients of the rock disappear faster than the others , which may remain isolated and comparatively little altered in the crumbling débris of the decomposed ...
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... existence . A group of living sea - shells cannot be found in an inland lake , nor will a living terrestrial vegetation be dredged up from the sea - floor . If , therefore , marine forms of life must be FIG . 18. - Limestone bored by ...
... existence . A group of living sea - shells cannot be found in an inland lake , nor will a living terrestrial vegetation be dredged up from the sea - floor . If , therefore , marine forms of life must be FIG . 18. - Limestone bored by ...
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